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Show THE A “Women’s Hunt’? in not Bengal. At a meeting of the Royal Asiatic society of Bengal a description was given of a peculiar custom among the aborig- inal lets the the tribes of Ranchi. a group of hamin Chota Nagpore. It is known as Era Sendra, or women’s hunt. On present occasion the object was to -expel the cholera demon, and it is usual when any great calamity overtakes the land for the women to dress themselves up in men’s clothes, arm themselves and go out to hunt, not in the jungles, but in the nearest villages east of them. They chase pigs and fowls, and everything they kill is theirs. They also levy black-. mail from the heads of the villages for the purchase of liquor. The villagers cannot prevent the slaughter of their animals, but the head men generally compromise matters by giving the huntresses apigand payingasmallsum. Toward evening the hunting party retires toa neighboring stream, where they cook and eat the meat and drink the liquor. They eat nothing after this meal, but bathe and return home. Men are not allowed to accompany them on such occasions, and they conduct themselves for the time being in a very masterful and masculine manner. They out in coats and 2!1 the borrow from hearts, their and they axes and sticks, are decked finery they can husbands and sweet- flourish beat their spears, their are not allowed to enter, as it is supposed to be under the special protection of its patron saint. If cholera’ appears there it is because the Mahadevis offended, and he must be propitiated before it can disappear.—London Times. The Ancestry of the ing of the ancestry of this strument, which is said to writing inbe mightier than the sword, said: The earliest mode of writing was on bricks, tiles, oyster shells, stones, ivory, bark and leaves of trees, and from the latter the term ‘leaves of a book” is’ probably derived. Copper and brass plates were very early in usc, and a bill of feoffment on copper was some years since discovered in India bearing date 100 years B.C. Leather was also used, as well as wooden tablets. Then the papyrus came into vogue, and about the Eighth century the papvrus superseded by parchment. Paper, however, is of greater antiquity, especially among the Chinese, but the first paper mill in England was built in 1586 y a German at’ Dartford, in Kent. Nevertheless, it was nearly a century and a half—namely, in 1718—before Thomas Watkins, a stationer, brought papermaking to anything like perfec- tion. The first approach to the pen was a stylus—a kind uh iron bodkin—but the Romans forbade its use on account of its frequent and even fatal use in quarrels, and then it was made of bone. Subsequently reeds pointed and split, like pens of the present day, were used, and in time they were replaced Lace Leaf steel and gold.—New The by pens York Telegram. of Plant. The lace leaf plant is chiefly found in the rivers of Madagascar, but it is difficult to find. as ter. The it grows root best under wa- is something like a po- tato, and is roasted and eaten by the natives. The leaves are of different colors, from the light green and yellow of the young growth to the darker shades of the old. The largest leaves are a foot long, and are delicate mesh work, the center and edges {c::ning a skeleton on which the threads arc supported. Looking down into the water where the plants are growing the leaves are said to look like a spread of magnificent lace in brown, green, olive and gold. They thrive well in greenhouses, only requiring a wet soil and damp, warm air, but the trouble of securing them makes them a rarity.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. : A Foreigner’s Property Rights. An alien who may come to this country intending to become a citizen as’soon as he can be naturalized, upon making deposition to that effect before any officer authorized to take proof of deeds. shall be entitled, after taking out his’ first papers, to acquire real estate. Certifi- ~~, cate of such deposition is filed in a book kept for such use in the office of the secretary of state. The person so acquiring real estate may sell, assign, mortgage or dispose of it in any manner for the cnsuing six years as if he were a native citiz2n, but he cannot lease it. In case of his death within the six years real estate thus regularly acquired falls to his hcirs, if he die intestate, as if he had been neturalized:— New The Same wowm ve an | angel, ana| stove. York Times. John. “Merriacve is not transformation. John will be as cross when he is hungry, as glum when ¢c'straught wiih business anxieties, as uncomfortable when his collar chafes his neck—in a word, as human and as {..llible a John wedded as single. Ife is i: good son and brother, et betrothed Mciry has heard him speak impaticutly to his mother and tartly to his sistcr. He will, upon what he reckons as sufiicient occasions, be both pert and petulant with his wife when once the “new chy” has.worn off, Were this One payS tue WEEKLY. Servalits ana cwue to render Italians hostile to the Papacy. underneath the beast’s neck. business suits ' market bills. In the case of the poorer To vindicate the rights of the Pontiff was He was at once taken at his word, and and Derby hats, or have dyspepsia and merchants she often acts as one of the the prosperity of the mounted Mexican bull-fighters soon smoke more than is wholesome for nerves clerks in thestores and takes the place of in reality to advance and pocket. Bills are never presented the hushand when he is not present. Italy, and to demand that the greatest had the animal lossoed and thrown. The to cherubim at most ingeniously incon- In the country you will find her often -mortal power in the world should possess cowboy then fixed himself in the proper venient times, and seraphim have no working in the fields, and at NikkolI real soverignity in Italy, where Provi- position, and now the furious bull was natural but thin«skinned conceit that saw great numbers of women who acted as the leaders of pack horses carrying dence had placed the church centuries turned loose. To the wonder and aswill not brook wifely criticism.—Marion copper and goods up and down the ‘ago, and was not an act of hostility to the tonishment and intense delight of the Harland. © mountains. Still, I think the women country. The fact that Bishops in for- ‘audience, the animal was unable to here have an easier time than those of More Than He Hoped for. ° shake the daring cowboy off, who not Entering the shop of his tailor the other the lower classes of Germany or Hol- eign lands were laboring for the restoraland, and you see fewer labor hardened tion of the Pope’s temporal right, had only kept his perilous seat, but after. day, he said: faces among the other sex here than you “Sir, lowe you £10.” proved that the whole interests of the some wild plunges, succeeded by some do in many of the countries of Europe. | ‘Yes, sir, you do.” Catholic Church were bound up in the means in so manipulating the beast’s The wife is, however, after all but little ‘And I have. owed it for a year?” horns that he wasthrown. The Mexican’ better than the servant:.of .the, husband, cause. . ‘You have.” performers rushed at once to the strug. ‘*And this is the fifth stal card you and the ties of marriage and divorce are here so loose that he can dispense with have sent regarding the debt?” gling mass and in a twinkle had the: her at pleasure. Marriage in Japan is Ho, Oklahoma, “T think it is the fifth.” Texan untied and released. It was a ‘‘Now, sir, while I cannot pay the debt not attended with the solemnity and rePawnee Bill has arrived in Wichita, wonderful piece of daring and darefor perhaps another year, i propose to ligious ceremony of the American wedIt isa civil contract, and the neKs., from Philadelphia to assume com- deviltry, and exceeded anything done by peeled my character as far as possible. ding. ere are twelve penny stamps. You gotiations for it go on, as a rule, through mand of the immense Oklahoma move- the Mexicans. can use them in sending me twelve the parents. The young man and woman ment which has forces in all the leading —_-—>—____monthly statements of account, and can | have no preliminary courtship, and the thus save your postal cards and my feel- seeing one another for one or two times towns of Southwestern Kansas, Northern In Parliament. | is the only chance they have of deciding Kansas and Western Kansas, and is said ings at the same time.” _\ltissaid that the tailor has credited | whether there is any compatibility of to be from 10,000 to 14,000 strong and In committee on the appropriation the shilling on account, and feels that he temperament.—Frank G. Carpenter. For some bill, Gorst being in the chair, Dr. Tandaily increasing in number. has secured more of the debt than he had worked been Thought It Was the Tariff. ner, Dr. Clark, and Mr. Caldwell promonths the movement has any reason to hope for.—New York Graphic. e: Old Uncle Peter Simonson was, in his quietly. Pawnee Bill said tonight the posed amendments to various parts of The tweed Kaffir’s day, one of the richest of ante-bellum planters. He owned and worked more than 3800 slaves, and nearly all of the river bottom lands along the Oemulgee Wooing. _A Kaffir, having fixed his affections upon some female, acquaints his parents’ with his intentions. They apply to the girl’s parents, and if the latter do not consent to the union a fight is inevitable. If the parents agree the next proceeding is to appoint two expert female negotiators, who obtain access by strategem tc the house, with the object of broaching the subject to the young lady. They carefully avoid any sudden or abrupt mention of the awful subject of their mission, man who but launch out in praises of seeks her hand. river between Hawkinsville and Macon, Ga., were tended by his men. He was quite a sportsman and spent the greater portion of his time hunting about his plantations or fishing up and down the river. He had been born and raised of poor parents right upon the Indian the They speak of his possessions, his courage and accomplishments. The girl, pretending to be affronted even at these remote hints, grows refractory and runs away, tearing The female embassadors, having concealment attracted several and his of murders of noise. life, came he had held ‘He _ has- slowly never around below. him with fire and much puffing. He lumped and climbed dejected, “Skin refusing food, till at last, if kind entreaties do not prevail, she is made to submit by blows to the union. The Kaffir who has the reputation of having committed -anumber by a singular the like of which got and carry her by force days, silent Creeks tened to the river bank, when something, to the house of her destined husband and there leave her. She is compelled to live here the 18386, while hunting in the swamps about six miles below Macon, his attention was the consent of the parents, drag her from her frontier, when the greater portion of Georgia, and had lived there all his life. He usually had a negro boy along with him when he hunted to carry home his game for him. One day in the latter part of the year the ringlets of her hair as she retires. Pen. A manufacturer of gold pens, in speak- was he angels do not wear iron drums, shout, sing hunting songs and dance} just as the mendo. The ceremony begins in the west, and each village that been visited goes out on a similar excursion to its neighbors, but always tothe east. By this means it is supposed that the evil spirit is safely conducted out of the district without offending its dignity. One village near Ranchi is an exception. It is called Mahadaiva, or devoted to Mahadev, and there the Amazons true WESTERN up seen the bend smoke and for his gun the nearest poplar tree. that in ar tree, Sambo,” old Peter yelled to the little darkies. ‘‘All right, massa; what is it?” “One of them ar tariffs [ve hearn congress hev been threatening to send down Mohammetans to destroy our craps and eat us up, enjoys exceptional privileges: he is re- feathers en all.” He sat. upon a limb spected by all the neighborhood, and ex- with his rifle in his hand until the periences little or no difficulties in pro- ‘‘thing” went out of sight around the curing a wife. The Kafiir woman is next point above him. It was the first doomed toa life of toil and drudgery, steamboat that came up the Ocmulgee as. and the husband can discard her when- far as Macon.—Detroit Free Press. ever he feels so disposed.—Calcutta News. It Was Different. > Two men, while traveling on a railway train, drifted in conversation from The World’s News politics to literature. ‘‘I suppose,” said one of the men, “that you like Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s <<>> >_>? ¢ ‘“‘Well, I can hardly say. I used to think that I admired her ‘Poems of Steamer of her Burned. burned Sunday near Commerce, Miss. on She was enroute to Memphis and had 200 people aboard. The fire was first discovered in riage cause you to stop reading her poems?” ‘ “Oh, well, it may bea trifling peculi- some bales of cotton aboard. The boat fact is I married. was about 300 yards from shore, and was My name is Wilcox, you know.” very soon landed, when rescued. On the arity on my pert. her. “Well, I am The glad to meet you, Mr. Wilcox. I can well understand that which you are pleased to term a trifling lower deck, however, a panic seized the crew and passengers. The stern of the pea Now, I once admired Amelie ives, but I don’t read her any more. J boat swung around from shore. and escape being cut off by the fire in front, married her, you saw Traveler. There understand.” —Arkan- Is a many were compelled to leap into the water to save themselves, A boat was launched, but they bounded into it in such confusion .that it was upset. It is estimated that fifty lives were lost in the Difference. There is a tremendous difference between holding atruth and letting it hold you; between doctrine merely recognized and aa doctrine that impels you to demand recognition for it from all the world. In one case you have a dead, in the other a living, truth. Religion to be effective demands lumber. live wood, A great deal of what catastrophe. Angry antipathy to religion him. He exhibited much more feeling than in his former utterances on the question of the temporal power, and in- his face bearing unmistakable marks of toration of Papal supremacy, and spoke a severe conflict. | |'in deprecation of the recent liberal en“O, Willie! Willie!” exclaimed his ‘‘you deeply have shocked disobeyed me and grieved,| actments in Italy. again. often I have told you not to that wicked Stapleford boy!” immense colony would certainly march to Oklahoma City. Arms would not be resorted to except for self-protection. Material for a Romance. A recent dispatch to the Tribune from Greeneville, S. C., tells the very romantic story of John Arnett, a name doubtless familiar to many of our old residents. For thirty years John Arnett has been mourned as dead among his relations in the northern part of this State. Today he is back among out was How, unusually His address throughviolent and bitter. play with’ The speech referred exclusively to the | Vatican and Italy. His Holiness said ‘‘Mamma,” said Willie, washing the| blood from>his nose, ‘‘do I look asif 1, while the world could see what a painful had been playing with anybody?’—Chi- situation he was placed in, one could cago Tribune. only ask how far could they go in the present system being waged. Even the The Women of Japan. person of the Pope was exposed to the The better class of Japanese women are by no means uneducated. They re- threats of the mob. The enemies of the ceive, {am told, a better training than the women of any other Oriental nation, and they are better treated than those of any other Asiatic nation. The Japanese Holy See had weapons enoug’ already to injure the Papacy. If these did not suffice, they were prepared to manufacture girl can, as a rule, read and write Ja- fresh weapons. It was persistently aspanese. She learns all about household | matters, and she takes the whole charge .serted that the Pope was the enemy of of the household. This is her sphere, Italy. This assertion was made to mask and she is known as the honorable mis- the real objects of the perfidious attacks txess of the household. Her husband has no right to be meddling with the cooking | them telling the the bill, and Gorst ruled them we are here in committee of supply appropriating money to a swindler, thief, and servant of the Irish Secretary, Balfour ought to be here, and not be such a coward ashe is.” Gorst ordered Dr. Tanner to resume his seat and to withdraw the word “coward.” ; Dr. Tanner retorted, “I call him both a coward and a liar.” Goschen moved that Tanner be suspended. The house agreed without division and Tanner left the chamber. eee story of his adventures. It was in the fall of 1858 that Arnett, then a young man of 21, was married to a pretty cousin who hed/been raised almost in the same house with himself. against the church, and that object was all out of order. Dr. Tanner excitedly protested against the chairman’s ruling. He said: “When ‘The The World Pope has Over. given $24,000 to the A few weeks later he dis- Rome poor and $6000 to the poor priests appeared, and until one week ago he had not been heard of. While on a visit to this place he fell in with Walter M. Gib- as Christmas gifts. The Italian Chamber of Deputies by son,who,was a strolling school teacher,and who since became Premier to King a vote of 115 to 32 passed the bill author- Kalakaua, of the Gibson’s wild talk of the fancy of Arnett, tune with him he fenses. and Sandwich Islands. the West enchanted and taking his forfollowed Gibson to subsequently to Honolulu. Arnett never grew to be anything more than a dependent, and was finally abandoned by Gibson, in whom he had re- posed faith. He was ashamed of himself for deserting his bride in the hope of final success and delayed letter writing until. he was blunted by absence and chilled by adversity. Early in the summer his longing to return home was rekindled. Poor and without prospects, he |'worked his way on a ship to San Francisco and thenceslowly eastward. izing a credit his daughter who had been born after his departure, the young mother giving up her life at thesame time. The young DARING Mme. Bernhardt has declined A Texas Cowboy Ridesa Furious Bull in a Mexican The bull-fighters for a million franes worth of shells, and is negotiatiug with the same manufac- turer purchase of eighty for the Paso new batteries. Owing to the protest of the British representatives at Zanzibar the Sultan has cancelled his order for the wholesale execution man war of criminals. ship “Leipsic” another dhow The has Ger- captured with 150 slaves. The Vienna Tageblatt has a dispatch saying the Russian Consul at Malta has been arrssted on suspicion of having placed an explosive shell in the theatre there while the Duchess of Edinburgh was present. The Consul refuses to answer questions. The English authorities believe the affair is the outcome of a nihilistic conspiracy. conspiracy has been Union dis- office in Boston, ranging from officials to messenger boys, by which a system of stealing has been going on. Bull-Ring. at an offer A Sofia dispatch says: The government has signed a contract with Krupp }eovered in the Western EXPLOIT. lire for de- 3 from the Sultan of Turkey of 24,000 francs for a performance in the palace. When he reached the old homestead he saw upon the doorstep a woman strikingly like the wife he had deserte!. It was of 145,000,000 Aw alleged dignantly denied that he was an enemy He Hadn’t Disobeyed. The little boy had come in with his of Italy. He urged Catholics everywhere clothes torn, his hair full of dust, and |, to aggitate in a legal manner for the res- mother, such a movement until action on the Oklahoma bill now pending could be taken, and if unfavorable action were taken, an is called Messenger. fav- oring an immediate march into Oklahoma proper, he would certainly oppose is simply and makes one gentler, broader and nobler, developing integrity and probity, will never arouse indifference.—Jewis },| finan- were Pope, The Pope, addressing the Saered Colindifference to its dead elements. A liv- lege on Monday, gave thanks to God for ing faith that is translated into action the blessings the Jubilee had brought popular strong some lady is the wife of a well to-do-farmer who purchased the old homestead. The not dead backed by While it was Gibson’s. fortune to prosper, The steamer, Kate Adams, . ‘Why, her work is really’ better now than ever before. Why did her mar- was cial support and while Utah poetry?” Passion,’ but I have not read any writings since she was married.” i movement del Norte A were recently enlivened during the proceedings by the daring exploit of a Texas specrAu to tho cowboy, says the Cevmour (Tex.) Crescent, who was cheered to the echo by the appointment, densely-packed audience who filled every be tendered to him. accessible nook in the vast amphitheater. The performance lagged a little, and the bulls would not fight in spite of all the Philadelphla Times Philadelphia, says: John Wannamaker will be amember of the new cabinet. He has not been formally notified of his |’ Tue but knows body of United States overboard S. J. a portfolio Hughes, of the coast survey, who from a steamer in will fell Puget picadores might do. Sound three weeks ago was recovered One or two of the bulls, after having thirry miles from the scene of the accibeen successfully goaded and worried dent. An immense octopus or devil-fish without working them up to the proper was fastened to one leg andis thought to. fighting point, had heen ignominiously have been the cause of his death. driven out of the arena, and a new one, A STEEL pointed projectile weighing full of fight and fairly bellowing with rage, had just been turned into the am- 250 pounds has been fired from one of phitheater, when a Texas cowboy who the new steel breech-loading rified guns was present announced, for the honor of the new cruiser Chicago, which peneand glory of Texas, that he would ride trated a. steel target ten inches thick, the bull, his legs tied around the ani- and cut through a solid oak back. The mal’s neck, his face to the tail, if they eqperiment is considered as likely to would first throw the bull so that he have an important beuring on modern 7 could get his legs properly around and naval warfare. |